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Bonk : the curious coupling of science and sex / Mary Roach.

Author: Roach, Mary.

Edition: 1st ed.

Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton, c2008.

ISBN: 9780393064643 (hardcover)
0393064646 (hardcover)

Description: 319 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Subject: Sex (Biology) Popular works.

Contents: The sausage, the porcupine and the agreeable Mrs. G : highlights from the pioneers of human sexual response -- Dating the penis-camera : can a woman find happiness with a machine? -- The princess and her pea : the woman who moved her clitoris, and other ruminations on intercourse orgasms -- The upsuck chronicles : does orgasm boost fertility, and what do pigs know about it? -- What's going on in there? : the diverting world of coital imaging -- The Taiwanese fix and the penile pricking ring : creative approaches to impotence -- The testicle pushers : if two are good, would three be better? -- Re-member me : transplants, implants, and other penises of last resort -- The lady's boner : is the clitoris a tiny penis? -- The prescription-strength vibrator : masturbating for health -- The immaculate orgasm : who needs genitals? -- Mind over vagina : women are complicated -- What would Allah say? : the strange, brave career of Ahmed Shafik -- Monkey do : the secret sway of hormones : "Persons studies in pairs" : the lab that uncovered great sex.

Summary: Roach shows how and why sexual arousal and orgasm can be so hard to achieve and what science is doing to make the bedroom a more satisfying place.

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